LOOKING BACK

10-20-40-100 YEARS AGO

100 YEARS AGO....Fifteen percent of the awardsat the huge Dallas County Fairwere won by members of theMilam County Corn Club (forerunner of 4-H).Concrete streets and sidewalks were being poured in thenew Peiser subdivision whichwas extending Belton and Davilla Avenues toward the Rockdaleschools.Work was beginning on anew, 10,000-square foot schoolbuilding for Gause.Ex-president Teddy Rooseveltwas wounded in an assassination attempt in Milwaukeeand Reporter Publisher JohnEsten Cooke commented thatTeddy wouldn’t let any doctors“McKinleyize” him. (PresidentWilliam McKinley died in 1901,eight days after being shot inBuffalo, New York).FORTY YEARS AGO....Alcoa donated a 10-acre siteoff Meadow Drive for Rockdale’sproposed new hospital.Mayor Harold Luckey declaredOct. 28 “Great Pumpkin Day” inRockdale to commemorate theannual Rockdale ElementaryHalloween Parade which drewhundreds of children each fall.Rockdale’s City Park set“paved streets in and aroundFair Park” as its number onepriority.Georgetown held Rockdale tojust 106 yards total offense andwon a defensive struggle 14-0 toeliminate RHS from the District

12AAA South Zone race.TWENTY YEARS AGO....Rockdale, and Milam Countyvoters, were headed to the pollsto decide whether to returnformer State Rep. Dan Kubiak(D-Rockdale) to the legislativeseat he once occupied. Kubiakwas challenged by RepublicanRobert Mikeska of Brenham.The Rockdale High School BigBlue Band, directed by RonnieStanford, earned a Division I(Superior) rating in UIL Marching Contest at Austin Westlake.Residents in the 400 block ofSan Jacinto were evacuated bythe Rockdale VFD after a leakwas discovered in a naturalgas line.City council members declinedto pass a resolution endorsing aplanned increase in Cable VideoEnterprises monthly rates.TEN YEARS AGO....In keeping with “tradition,”the Rockdale Fair broke anear-summer long drought withmore than two inches of rainfalling overnight Friday andthrough Saturday.Megan Davidson was MissRockdale Fair 2012 and theannual youth livestock auctionraised $125,549.Mill Street was resurfaced justin time for the 2002 RockdaleFair.Leading only 13-10 into thefourth quarter, Casey Creghan’sRockdale Tigers struck for twolate TDs and defeated the Horners 27-10.